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Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist at Apple, has jumped ship from iOS to Android. In an interview with Dan Lyons of ReadWrite, Kawasaki said that he's a diehard Android fan. Kawasaki switched to a phone running Google's mobile operating system about a year ago so that he could use...

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Google’s latest Nexus-branded hardware went on sale in Europe today. The Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet were both due to be available today on the Play store, alongside the refreshed Nexus 7 tablet. But it appears that the newest Nexus hardware is selling out fast. Both versions of...

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As the 20th anniversary of the text message came and passed last week, many in the tech and mobile business world (including Dan Rowinski of ReadWrite) couldn't help but declare the death of SMS, claiming that text messaging is finally over the hill and on a one-way path to irrelevance....

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As more consumers use smartphones to help them shop, advertisers are growing worried about how they will reach those customers. Unlike web sites, which allow brands to target specific users, mobile phones are a relative black hole when it comes to gathering consumer data. This situation has led a start-up...

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Stocard, which competes with Apple’s Passbook with a simple but clever take on the mobile phone-as-loyalty-card-wallet, has raised $850k in funding from German VC High-Tech Gründerfonds, Klaas Kersting, and two unnamed investors from the retail sector. Available for iOS and Android, and targeting the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and...

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If you jumped on the Creative Cloud bandwagon, you're about to cash in one of the major perks of taking said leap. Keeping its promise to roll out new features to the aforementioned members first, Adobe has announced updates to Muse and Photoshop alongside Creative Cloud training materials and...

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SeatGeek, which aggregates tickets from resale sites like StubHub, just launched its first iPhone app, one that allows users to browse interactive maps as they try to find the best deals. When SeatGeek raised funding back in August, the stated reason was to “build a really great mobile app.” Co-founder...

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On a trip to San Francisco last week, I invited technology to bring me to my knees. Choosing to surrender my formerly sharp analog city instincts for the purposes of an experiment, I mapped even the simplest of routes on my smartphone, dialed nary a hotel front desk and never...

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Google’s Chrome team appears to be looking to extend the way the browser connects with other devices, incorporating support for a new protocol that will enable Chrome apps to discover and interact with “first screen devices.” According to François Beaufort, who recently discovered that Google will attempt to bring Google...

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Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world’s best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. The figures show the S III to have shifted 18 million units in Q3, compared to...

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If you don’t remember Swivl — which we reviewed in full here at AllThingsD — you surely can’t be blamed. With an original price point of $179, it was a pretty expensive accessory for shooting video on your iPhone. Only around 10,000 units have sold since it came to market...

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Le roi est mort. Vive le roi. Apple’s iPhone 4S is no longer the world’s best-selling smartphone. For the first time ever, Samsung has taken that title with its massively successful Galaxy S III model. “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 smartphone model shipped 18.0 million units worldwide during the third quarter of...

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It seems Casio's G-Shock GB6900 hasn't been mindful of its own raison d'être, turning up much later than expected. After making its first appearance way back in March 2011, rolling through FCC in July the same year, and then reportedly getting stalled by floods in Thailand, the Bluetooth 4.0-packing...

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Despite Apple’s lead in the tablet market taking its first serious dent in Q3, the iPad’s dominance of the tablet market will continue for the next five years, according to Strategy Analytics. The launch of the iPad mini and “continued dominance” of the iPad will ensure Apple’s iTunes App Store...

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The difference between ReadWrite Pause and the rest of the op-eds about reconsidering our relationship with Web technology is that most of those op-eds are unbelievably stupid. They worry about the tech instead of the people. Computers are inanimate (so far). We are responsible for the way we use them....

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Despite the fact that Google controls Android, the largest mobile operating system in the world, analysts still worry that the company is "challenged" in mobile. Just last week, Heather Bellini at Goldman Sachs laid out the reasons for skepticism about Google's mobile business. Here they are, briefly: Google had 70%...

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After multiple delays pushed the highly anticipated launch of Research In Motion’s (RIMM) next-generation BlackBerry 10 platform back to 2013, the company on Monday finally set a firm launch date. In a post on the company’s official Inside BlackBerry blog, RIM’s Donny Halliwell announced that RIM will hold a launch event...

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If you've been looking for an unholy union 'twixt smartphone and compact shooter, then Samsung's Galaxy Camera can't come soon enough. The Android-powered snapper arrives in the UK on Thursday November 8th, with an RRP of £399, unless, that is, you're in the vicinity of the Samsung store. If...

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Both finding success by crowdsourcing funding for their new smartphone-enabled products, Lumawake and Lockitron have teamed up again to extend the capabilities of their respective intelligent sleep recognition system and connected door-locking mechanism to secure your house the minute you fall asleep. The partnership sees Lumawake tune its motion-sensing sleep...

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After Samsung launched a teaser video for its big Consumer Electronics Show announcement, many (including us!) speculated that the company would unveil its new flagship Galaxy S IV smartphone at the event. Nope. CNET reports that Samsung's CES announcement will focus on TV products instead of mobile products like a...

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After a poorly interpreted teaser video hit YouTube and a number of blogs speculated that it might suggest an imminent Galaxy S IV unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, a new report confirms that Samsung’s (005930) next-generation flagship phone will not debut at CES 2013. Citing information learned from multiple...

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There were no heckles, boos or crickets for Samsung's reps back at IFA. But it's fair to say that the atmosphere following its unveiling of the Galaxy Camera was as muted as it was polite. It didn't help that most journalists in that meeting room were there primarily to...

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Interesting tweet from analyst Horace Dediu, "Apple's share of operating profits from global mobile phones dropped to 60% in Q3. Samsung now at 39%. HTC 1%. No other companies profitable." A couple of thoughts on this: How is this sustainable for all the other phone makers? What happens to Motorola,...

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The Korean device has knocked Apple's iPhone off the top of the tree, where it had been for two years. The King is dead, long live the King - or, to paraphrase Henry Carey: Apple must now its post resign, Samsung's the only God of Whine. According to research...

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While you probably won't be able to get Jack Dorsey to buy you a grande spearmint green tea the next time you go for coffee (we should know, we've tried), you can at least use his payment service. Yes, today's the day that Starbucks begins accepting Square Wallet purchases...

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Microsoft and Motorola Mobility will face off in court on Tuesday for the start of a patent trial that could help establish how royalty rates are calculated for standards-essential patents. Microsoft sued Motorola's smartphone division, which is now part of Google, two years ago, claiming it demanded an unreasonable...